What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

Re:What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hop... by hughrr on Thursday June 10, 2021 @04:03AM (#27458172)

I don’t buy on features myself because quite frankly every damn car I’ve hired or bought which has anything other than basic features is chock full of bugs and has to be fixed every two minutes. Auto companies just can’t and shouldn’t write any high level software at all and low level embedded stuff is even pretty awful. They just can’t support it properly. Tesla are a notable exception to this as in they actually offer OTA updates to their vehicles but the general rule is a big stinking thumbs down.

I mean the worst of this is the Range Rover I hired for a wedding to drive the bride in. Headlights gave out due to an electrical problem with CANbus when I was driving it back to the hire return. Just give me some fuses, switches and relays thanks.

My iPhone has 100x better navigation, media and communications support than anything else I’ve used. So I just slave it to the car with BT. I don’t even use CarPlay because bugs (Ford, Land Rover, Citroen in particular).

Keep the software and hardware separate and keep the hardware simple.

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Re:What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hop... by nicbou on Thursday June 10, 2021 @05:16AM (#27458624)

I think you are simply from a different breed of drivers. I assume you also wrench on those cars?

I also bet on simplicity, both because it's much cheaper, and because it gives me less trouble. Fuses, switches and relays, as you say.

I simply don't trust a company who already has my money to maintain a software package on wheels, and I just don't trust software in general.

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